Dear members of the Encoded Archival Standards community:
TS EAS is seeking to fill three international and four SAA based vacancies in TS EAS during the fall of 2022. We seek new members through open calls and will evaluate all applications. There might be an on-line call performed after we have gone through the applications.
TS EAS meets four times a year (committee members must attend at least two of these) and also has smaller teams working with specific tasks like the maintenance of the...
The Society of American Archivists' (SAA) Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, will be hosting a webinar in November 2022 to introduce the new version of the EAC-CPF standard.
Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) is an international standard maintained by SAA for encoding contextual information about persons, corporate bodies, and families related to...
The annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists’ Archival History Section continued the trend from the last two years, being held virtually on August 8, 2022. In addition to our business meeting and reports of work during 2021-2022, the meeting featured two speakers from the Boston area, thus acknowledging that the overall annual meeting would soon take place in this city. These speakers were by Petrina Jackson, Lia Gelin Poorvu Executive Director of the Schlesinger Library, Harvard...
The Web Archiving Section's ballot is now open until Sept. 23. Please vote for this year's nominees! Ballot Page: https://mysaa.archivists.org/myballots
Thank you to all who considered standing as a candidate for standing in the 2022 Military Archives Section election for the 2022-2023 cycle. We are providing the candidate's statement through our SAA MARS microsite page here, for you to review prior to any voting. Please take some time to review the candidate(s) statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect for a two-year term
The new chair of the MARS Section is...
The Fall 2022 issue of SOLO, the newsletter of the Lone Arrangers Section of the Society of American Archivists, is now available. This issue includes highlights and updates from LAS members as well as four articles on digitizing a large audiovisual collection, rethinking digitization standards, preserving World War II–era correspondence, and organizing records for a columbarium.
Read all past issues of SOLO on our Newsletter page.
Have an experience or idea you would like to share with your...
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us at the SAA 2022 Annual Meeting for the conversation lounge. Here are the slides -- which include links to the google form for your feedback on the beta version of the Research and Innovation Roadmap.
The SAA Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC) seeks case studies engaging with the principles set forth in the current SAA Core Values and Code of Ethics, which was recently revised by the CEPC and approved by the SAA Council in August 2020. The goal is to develop a series of writings that address archival ethics in actionable, approachable language so that the resulting case studies can be used both as pedagogical tools and as practical resources in the workplace.
Suggested...
Nominees for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Corinne Chatnik
I recently began my position as Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian at Union College in Schenectady, NY and was previously a professional archivist specializing in digital archiving for five years at the New York State Archives. I have always pushed to embrace the age of technology and the new formats that will shape the archival record going forward. Websites are so integral to documenting daily life, technological advancements and...
Here’s our slate of candidates and their information:
Vice Chair / Chair Elect:
(Select One)
William Coates I work as a freelance archivist in Los Angeles and around the country, specializing in the collections of writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers. I am completing 2 years service as an at-large member of the Independent Archivists Section steering committee.
Candidate Statement:
Throughout my term in the Chair positions, I would like to make the...
Congratulations and welcome to our newly-elected Steering Committee Members!
Vice Chair/ Chair Elect: Julie Yamashita
Events Coordinator: Rebecca Leung
Regional Rep: Hilary Swett
Web Liaison: Shaun Kirkpatrick
Thanks to everyone who attended the joint annual meeting of the Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) on August 3, 2022. A recording of the meeting is available at the Society of American Archivists' events site:
https://www.pathlms.com/saa/events/2923/event_sections/12433/video_presentations/240039
This year's meeting featured a moderated panel and discussion on encoded archival standards in the context of aggregators of...
Melissa Lawton
Archivist for Collections Management, Special Collections & Archives, Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Bio:
I am currently the Archivist for Collections Management at Northern Arizona University, where I oversee and coordinate donor relations, acquisitions, appraisal, deaccessions, loans, rights management, environmental controls, and space management. Prior to joining the NAU Special Collections and Archives team in March 2022, I was the Archivist, Librarian,...
Check out the C&UA annual meeting agenda and register for the meeting! We'll see you on Friday, August 12 at 1pm CDT.
Attached are the Section Elections results
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards is pleased to release Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, Families (EAC-CPF) 2.0.
The process for a major revision for EAC-CPF started in 2017, following the 2015 merger of the Technical Subcommittees on EAD and EAC-CPF and the Schema Development Team into the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) and was finalized in early 2022.
The main updates to the standard are
changes to...
Our Annual Meeting is Tuesday August 9 1-2:30pm EST!
Join the Native American Archives Section (NAAS) for a recap of projects we've accomplished this year and a discussion on archival repatriation to guide the SAA’s new Archival Repatriation Committee. Our discussion will feature a roundtable with guest panelists Terry Baxter, Dominique Luster, Lylliam Posadas, & Trevor Reed!
Event is free, but you’ll need to register here.
Call for Repatriation Committee volunteers, open through...
Dear All, Remember please to register for our Annual Meeting, coming up soon.
https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=2efc376c-3120-4d7b-b8e0-150715cb6ad7&Home=%2fhigherlogic%2focapi%2fadmin%2fevents%2fManageCalendarEvents%2fGetEventsForCalendar
That is for Mon, Aug. 8, 2022, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (CT) via Zoom.
We will be privileged to have two great speakers,
Petrina Jackson, Lia Gelin Poorvu Executive Director of the Schlesinger Library,...
The Summer 2022 issue includes:
Letters from the MAS outgoing and incoming Chairs
Final letter from the Standards and Best Practices Committee
A report on updating Emerging and Underrepresented Artists Name Authority Records in the Library of Congress from the Clark Art Institute
Announcement highlighting the reprocessing of the Curt Valentin Papers at the Museum of Modern Art
A report on processing scrapbooks at the Detroit Institute of Art
A feature on Exhibiting War: What's in a Name? from...
View the Recording
The Collection Management section meeting included a brief business meeting to review the work of the section this year as well as an update from the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards.
Following this we heard from three speakers from various institution types (university, business and museum) on their collections moves and lessons learned. Please see the abstracts below to learn more about these presentations.
Lynsey Allie, Allie Archival Consulting...
Congratulation to our new DRS leaders!
Katie Twomey, Junior Co-Chair
Kristin Bjork, Steering Committee
Jade Snelling, Steering Committee
We are also excited to announce that the Digital Design Records Task Force has transitioned to the Digital Design Records Committee.
Please join us for our annual section business meeting along with four guest speakers focused on cooperative projects (outlined below).
This free event is open to all. Registration required for Zoom security.
Presentations
“The Power of Partnerships”
Julie Varee, Community Outreach Archivist, Anchorage Museum, Alaska
This presentation will highlight the discovery of how one museum’s archives benefited from an exhibition and related public programs.
"An Artist Archive Supports an International...
Please join us Tuesday, August 9 from 2-3:30pm Eastern / 1-2:30pm Central / 11am-12:30pm Pacific for the Lone Arrangers Annual Meeting!
We will begin with a business meeting and introduction of the Steering Committee. Learn more about what the Lone Arrangers Section has to offer, from the Regional Representatives program, to the SOLO newsletter, and our Events program. The business meeting will be followed by a year-in-review roundtable participatory discussion led by our Steering Committee....
The Electronic Records and Oral History sections invite you to attend their joint section meeting on August 2, 2022 at 12 pm Eastern/9 am Pacific. In hosting a joint session, our goal is to encourage dialogue between our members and to reflect on our shared interests and challenges, particularly in the ways that our work has been impacted by a remote working environment and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Our meeting will begin with 15 minutes of section business in breakout rooms before coming...
The SAA Committee on Research, Data, and Assessment (CORDA) will be hosting our annual business meeting on Thursday, July 28th from 4:00-5:30 pm EST/3:00-4:30 pm CST/2:00-3:30 pm MST/1:00-2:30 PST.
VIDEO RECORDING HERE
https://www.pathlms.com/saa/events/2923/event_sections/12433/video_presentations/239422
CORDA is finishing an action-packed year and the year ahead looks to be equally ambitious. Many of its early objectives are coming into fruition, and committee members are eager to...
